
Reverend Horton Heat/ Supersuckers/Split Lip Rayfield, House of Blues, Cleveland, OH
Photos by Robert Massie of Reverend Horton Heat with the Supersuckers and Split Lip Rayfield, House of Blues, Cleveland, OH 12/11/05
Photos by Robert Massie of Reverend Horton Heat with the Supersuckers and Split Lip Rayfield, House of Blues, Cleveland, OH 12/11/05
A Wednesday night and a blizzard is basically a promoter’s nightmare, but book a couple of derelict bands in a small venue and surely the promoter’s loss will be the audience’s gain. Reinventing the word tacky with their 70’s Lacoste formal fashions of paisley patterns and heinous ties, OK Go proved they weren’t all a bad fashion statement, while giving the small showcase lounge at Higher Ground something to shout about.
Laid out in theatre format and playing like the soundtrack to a mid century German film on existentialism produced by a floundering grad student, Book of Sand’s music bores from start to finish. The three main movements titled “The Century Trilogy: Conquest, Empire and The Fall” are grandiose in title only. The album is fundamentally instrumental with random chanting; some of it from guest Devendra Banhart, however the ghostly wails do nothing to further the music in any direction.
Gov’t Mule has returned to the studio to record the follow-up to it’s 2004 ATO Records release D